Former Eastham Select Board member and Town Moderator David Schropfer, Sr. died peacefully in his sleep on Aug. 13, 2024 at Regal Care in Harwich. He was 84. He had […]
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Robert Collis, Who Forged a Life of Kindness, Dies at 57
Robert Matthew Collis, a lifelong visitor to Provincetown who found acceptance and a spiritual home here, died on June 28, 2024 of lung cancer. He died in hospice care at […]
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Pediatrician and Housing Advocate Susan Spear Dies at 78
Pediatrician, hospital administrator, and affordable housing advocate Susan Spear of New York City and Wellfleet died at home on July 30, 2024 after fighting metastatic breast cancer for 10 years. […]
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John Lee Brock, Who Loved the Sea, Was 71
John Brock died on July 3, 2024, at his home in Orleans after a long fight against COPD and emphysema. He was 71. Born at Fort Dix, N.J. on Oct. […]
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Biologist Paul Goetinck Dies at 91
Paul Firmin Goetinck, a biologist and longtime Wellfleet resident, died peacefully at home in hospice care on July 15, 2024. The cause was a rare, incurable blood condition caused by […]
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Richard Bergman, Who Loved Provincetown, Dies at 76
Richard Avald Bergman of Provincetown died at the Village at Rancho Solano Memory Care facility in Fairfield, Calif. on July 8, 2024. No cause of death was given. He was […]
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Robert Jones, Co-Founder of Cape Cod Village, Dies at 80
Robert Jones, who co-founded Orleans Psychotherapy Associates in 1986 and the Cape Cod Village for adults with autism in 2020, died on July 2, 2024 while attending an AA meeting […]
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Provincetown’s Robert Alvin Taylor Dies at 67
After years of health struggles, Robert Alvin Taylor died on June 3, 2024 at Seashore Point in Provincetown. He was 67. The son of George and Gladys Taylor, Bobby was […]
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A Lover of Solitude, Philip Mastrobattisto Dies at 68
Philip Mastrobattisto, a fisherman, wanderer, explorer, craftsman, and artist, died on April 18, 2024 at his friend Eric Lindholm’s Eastham home at age 68. The cause, according to his family, […]
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Former Shop Owner and Author Irma Ruckstuhl Dies at 93
Irma Ruckstuhl died peacefully in her North Truro home on June 23, 2024. The author of Old Provincetown in Early Photographs, she was an antiques expert, gift shop owner, and […]
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Dorothy Ross, a Historian of Social Science, Dies at 87
Dorothy Ross, a pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and the first woman chair of the history department at Johns Hopkins University, died at her home in […]
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Timothy Sherlock of Wellfleet Dies at 51
Timothy Michael Sherlock of Wellfleet died peacefully at home with his three sisters by his side on June 15, 2024. He had faced esophageal cancer with great courage. He was […]
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Provincetown’s VFW Commander Philip Andrew Fingado Dies at 57
Paul Mendes was grocery shopping in 2009 when he saw a man in his early 40s wearing a Marine Corps buckle. A Vietnam vet of the Corps and longtime Provincetown […]
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Writer, Artist, and Judge Dermot Meagher Dies at 83
Dermot Meagher, the first openly gay judge in Massachusetts, who was also a writer and artist, died on Dec. 28, 2023 at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He […]
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Educator Kerin Francis Brodie Dies at 56
Kerin Francis Brodie of Harwich died on June 5, 2024 at Mass. General Hospital in Boston from complications of sarcoidosis. She was 56. Kerin was born in Hyannis on March […]
